Digital Foreground With streaking complex patterns and distinct color palettes, Sara Risley experiments with unsuspecting motifs, splashing them with highly concentrated and intense tones. Risley's creative work easily stands on its own, but also does well providing themes for promotional materials and other formats more deliberately aimed at communicating messages. Risely recently began experimenting with motifs... Continue Reading →
Vision Noir, Ryan Laessig, Milwaukee Alt
At The Hide House, the Milwaukee Art Beat street fair played silence between sets anticipating Fever Marlene . An old warehouse towered over everyone. Deep in the background next to the parking lot where mini-festivities took place, a few canopies stood on the lawn. The clothes rack I spotted could have been holding old towels,... Continue Reading →
Gallery Night, Summer 2011, Bryan Cera
Expanding like a sponge with access to water, Milwaukee can't help but ingest all the art it can get its dilated eyes upon. Gallery Night in Milwaukee is truly reaching major event status, even without complete buy-in from all of Milwaukee's artistic strong holds. Some of the Light, Blue Ant Gallery, Third Ward Through the... Continue Reading →
Seize the Moment, The Brass Rooster
Milwaukee has a knack for growing inspired efforts. The Brass Rooster leaped out of no where this past Spring, to become a prime example of resurgent artisan crafts fusing with entrepreneurial pursuits. At The Brass Rooster hats are not just sold, but blocked, shaped, and re-banded. Crafting dreams happens the same way, if you want... Continue Reading →
Suspended Hanging, MARN: Things on a String
Milwaukee Artist Resource Network (MARN) challenged its emerging artists to work vertically, in Friday night's exhibition Things on a String. Roughly 35 designers worked with lengths of string that varied greatly in size, some dangling from the ceiling to the floor, others at a length reasonable for guests to reach the objects attached to the... Continue Reading →
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